7 Powerful Ways to End Your Next Blog Post
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. You know your title has to hook readers. You know your first line needs to keep them reading. The start of your blog post matters. But so does the end. In fact, without a powerful end to your post, all the ...more
Creating Content
How Compassion Cures Writer’s Block
This guest post is by Brandon Yawa of BrandonYawa.com. If you are a writer, I don’t have to tell you how a dark shadow dubbed “writer’s block” hoovers over all your projects like Casper, but in the form of a not-so-friendly ghost. However, I assure you, this phenomenon known as ...more
Writing Content
The Post-writing Rules I Always Break. Do You?
This guest post is by Kate Toon Copywriter. I have an admission; I suffer from several deep-rooted blog-writing afflictions. For years I thought it was just me, that I was the only one. Lately, though, I’ve realised that I’m not alone. Yes, I’ve read all those “15 rules of blog ...more
Writing Content
Get Creative About Your Content … Consistently
This guest post is by Pratik Dholakiya of E2M Solutions. You’ve heard it a thousand times. “You need great, original content.” And it’s becoming increasingly obvious that “original” isn’t the same thing as “not plagiarized.” There’s just one problem. Doing something truly original is hard. How can you make original ...more
Writing Content
Writing the Truth of Your Own Experience
This guest post is by Sean M. Madden of Mindful Living Guide. The cornerstone of my teaching is to write the truth of our own experience. They’re fine words, which roll off the tongue with ease. But I needn’t tell you how gut-wrenching it can be to put them into ...more
Writing Content
The Biggest Lie in Blogging and How to Disprove it
This guest post is by Ryan Biddulph of Cashwithatrueconscience.com. You lie to yourself. Every day as a blogger. Okay, maybe you don’t. Maybe you don’t buy in. But you probably do. If you moan about struggling to blog. Writer’s block The lie is writer’s block. You have no ideas. You ...more
Writing Content
The Commonsense Approach to Fresh Post Ideas
This guest post is by Ryan Shell of Fashables. If you’re a long-time blogger, you, at some point, have inevitably looked at a blank document on a computer screen and thought to yourself, “I have no idea what I’m going to write about.” And if you’ve never been a blogger, it’s ...more
Writing Content
Kickstart Your Stalled Blog Content, Part 3: Let Your Publication Inspire Your Next Post
Over the last week, we’ve been kickstarting stalled blog content. We’ve worked through the process of planning, writing and editing a post, and I hope that by now some of you might have published that post. At this point, I hope you’re thinking that kickstarting the content on your neglected ...more
Be Productive
Curb Your Blogging Frustration in 8 Steps
This guest post is by Marc Ensign of MarcEnsign.com and NotAnotherSEOBlog.com. That last blog post was really good. It was supposed to be the one. The post that launched you into blogging stardom. Right into the spotlight. Making you an overnight success. That post was supposed to change everything. But it didn’t. Instead, it received ...more
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